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Neuroethics

The Implications of Mapping and Changing the Brain

Walter Glannon

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English
MIT Press
16 December 2025
An examination of ethical issues in recording and intervening in the brain, and the neurobiological basis of moral decision-making.

An examination of ethical issues in recording and intervening in the brain, and the neurobiological basis of moral decision-making.

Neuroethics is an introduction to the main ethical and legal issues in six areas of experimental and clinical neuroscience- neuroimaging; disorders of consciousness; brain death; cognitive and moral enhancement; the neurobiological basis of moral reasoning; and neural prosthetics. The book is distinctive in offering a comprehensive discussion of the main issues in the ethics of neuroscience and the neuroscience of ethics that have developed over the last 25 years.

Walter Glannon captures the historical, current, and future-oriented aspects of neuroethics and discusses emerging issues such as the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence in diagnostic and predictive neuroimaging, brain organoids, and neural prosthetics, as well as neurorights to protect information about people's brains.
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Imprint:   MIT Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm, 
Weight:   369g
ISBN:   9780262553520
ISBN 10:   026255352X
Pages:   294
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Walter Glannon is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Calgary. His main areas of interest are bioethics and neuropsychiatry. He is the author or editor of 15 books.

Reviews for Neuroethics: The Implications of Mapping and Changing the Brain

“In Neuroethics, Walter Glannon offers a comprehensive and rigorous, yet approachable, scholarly introduction to the field of neuroethics. Readers will enjoy learning about the history of the field and key questions in neuroethics, and this book is peppered with relevant and astonishing insights from landmark cases and studies in neuroscience, philosophy, neurology, law, and psychology. Glannon’s unmatched expertise brings a humanistic vision of neuroscience.” —Eric Racine, Professor of Health Ethics, Montreal Clinical Research Institute and Université de Montréal “Walter Glannon has been a key scholar of neuroethics from the beginning, helping to identify and understand the ethical questions and to map and critique the key arguments emerging in this young field. His latest book offers readers an up-to-date overview of thinking on the main topics in neuroethics, addressing the clinical, just, and broader sociopolitical implications of evolving brain sciences and technologies.” —Jennifer Chandler, Canada Research Chair in the Law and Ethics of Brain Technologies, University of Ottawa ""To characterize [Glannon's] new book as introductory, although academically accurate, would fall short of appreciating its illumination of perplexing issues across bioethics, medicine, psychiatry, philosophy of mind, moral philosophy, and law. His expertise with philosophical, ethical, and clinical dimensions of neuroscience informs an agent‐centered locus for assessing biopsychological knowledge while steering neuroethics away from metaphysical mind‐body misadventures."" —Bioethics


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